Andreas Stähle
Andreas steels ( born February 14, 1965 in Halle ( Saale) ) is a former German canoeist and current coach. He won two medals at the 1988 Summer Olympics.
Sports career
Andreas steels in 1981 was second in the Children 's and Youth and won at the European Junior Championships in kayak One - and four-man kayak. The canoeist began at the " BSG activist South Hall " (now " Hall shear Canoe Club 54 eV " ) paddling and then moved to SC DHfK Leipzig and entered first time in 1983 at the World Championship in the adult class and was in four kayak at first world champion. After the steels at the Olympics in 1984 missed because of the Olympic boycotts of the GDR, he won in 1985 as the first German World Championship title in the one - kayak over 500m. In 1986 steels his third gold medal at the World Championships, this time in the back four. In 1987 he won the silver medal behind the New Zealander Paul MacDonald in One. The following year, steels defeated at the Olympic canoeing competitions over 500 meters the Hungarian Zsolt Gyulay clear, but won silver from Paul MacDonald. With the four-man kayak steels won his second Olympic medal with bronze. In 1990 he was still a silver medal at the World Championships in Poznan.
Steels was honored in 1986 with the Patriotic Order of Merit in gold and silver in 1984, and 1988.
After the turn it took Andreas steels to Baden-Württemberg, where he is coach of the canoe Community Stuttgart.
International Medals
- Gold in One kayak over 500 meters
- Gold in the quad kayak over 500 meters with Frank Fischer, André Wohllebe and Jens Fiedler
- Silver in the one-person kayak over 500 meters
- Silver in the one-person kayak over 500 meters
- Bronze in the Four kayak over 1000 meters with André Wohllebe, Kay Bluhm and Hans -Jörg Bliesener
- Silver in the quad kayak over 500 meters with Mathias Hoppe, Uwe Münch and André Wohllebe